Update Installed Skills
Use when syncing or updating previously installed skills to their latest version.
Install
npx skills add MoizIbnYousaf/ai-agent-skills --skill update-installed-skills -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- MoizIbnYousaf/ai-agent-skills1.2k
- Category
- Engineering
- Updated
- 1mo ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Lightabout 332 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Use when syncing or updating previously installed skills to their latest version. Always dry-run updates before applying, and check for breaking changes.
Update Installed Skills
Goal
Keep installed skills current without breaking the agent's workflow or silently overwriting local customizations.
Guardrails
- Always use
--dry-runbefore running a real update. - Check what is currently installed before updating:
npx ai-agent-skills list --installed. - Never update all skills at once in production without reviewing the dry-run output.
- Use
--format jsonto capture structured update results for logging.
Workflow
- List currently installed skills.
npx ai-agent-skills list --installed --format json --fields name
- Check for available updates.
npx ai-agent-skills check
- Dry-run the update.
npx ai-agent-skills sync <skill-name> --dry-run
- Apply the update after reviewing.
npx ai-agent-skills sync <skill-name>
- For bulk updates, review each skill's dry-run output.
npx ai-agent-skills sync --all --dry-run
Gotchas
- Skills installed from GitHub will attempt a fresh clone during sync. If the upstream repo is gone, the update will fail gracefully.
- Manually edited SKILL.md files will be overwritten by sync. Back up customizations before syncing.
- The
checkcommand makes network requests to verify upstream sources. It may be slow or fail if sources are unreachable.
